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… Cynthia Ozick NY Times Piece on Young Writers Misses the Economics | The New Republic. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I had an editing job the day after I left college. It paid well, too. Then, I bopped around for quite a few years writing, editing, and doing anything else necessary to pay the bills. (Those other jobs taught me much of value I couldn't have learned elsewhere.) I suspect a lot of young writers today are doing much the same thing.